World News by Wild Rose

At least 14 people have been killed and 11 remain missing after heavy rain triggered floods and landslides across Nepal.

It has been a deadly night in South Africa, with 27 people killed in two separate shooting incidents. Police say 17 people were shot dead at a tavern outside Johannesburg by suspects armed with assault rifles, while another 10 were killed near Cape Town when gunmen opened fire at a venue selling grilled meat. No arrests have been made as police search for the attackers. Initial investigations suggest one shooting may have been linked to a turf war between illegal miners, while the other could have stemmed from a business rivalry. France 24 correspondent Eurice Masson reports the latest from South Africa.

A 14-year-old boy was killed after a Russian drone tore into a 16-storey apartment block in Kyiv’s Pecherskyi district overnight on Friday 25 September 2026.

Four people died in the violence that erupted in Leh, Ladakh, on September 24, 2025

One of those killed is believed to be a pregnant woman, police said.

Russia fired ballistic missiles at the southern Ukrainian industrial cities of Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Pavlohrad overnight, killing at least four people and wounding six, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Oleksandr Hanzha, said on Telegram on Tuesday. The casualties occurred in Dnipro, he said, where people are still believed to be trapped under the rubble of a hit industrial facility. The Russian Defence Ministry confirmed attacks on Ukraine’s metals, chemicals, energy and arms...

Israeli attacks on Palestinians continue in Gaza despite a 'ceasefire' signed in October.

Syrian army holds funeral for soldiers killed in ammunition blast in town of Ayyash, in western Deir Az Zor, on Friday.

Russia struck the Ukrainian cities of Odesa and Sumy on 16 September, sparking fires and damaging homes and other buildings, according to Ukrainian emergency services and local officials.

At least 82 people have been killed in a gold mine collapse in Sudan’s West Kordofan state, with dozens more injured and others feared trapped beneath the rubble.

A war-damaged building collapses in Gaza City, killing at least 21 Palestinians and exposing fears of unsafe ruins.

Two members of the family are undergoing treatment for injuries

Police attributed the accident to the lorry driver’s rash and negligent driving

Thirty charred bodies found inside a burned passenger ferry in the western Philippines arrived at a port Saturday for identification after a ship fire killed at least 35 people and left more than 50 others missing earlier this week. Retrieval operations will continue as more bodies are still inside the MV June Aster, coastguard officials said without providing a count. There were 43 survivors among the 132 people on board. The ferry sailed from the capital, Manila, and was off the village of...

Access to the burnt-out boat has been slowed by toxic fumes and lingering heat, the country's coast guard says.

Successive wars launched after 9/11 have killed at least 4.5 million people and displaced more than 38 million others.

A Russian strike on a shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad killed at least four people.

Residents in the rebel-controlled city of Bukavu have been reeling in the aftermath of a fire that tore through two schools and proved deadly.

A coach carrying 48 Dutch passengers overturns, leaving several people dead.

At least 25 people were killed after a fire broke out aboard a ship at a shipyard in China.

Four members of a Palestinian family, including girls aged 8 and 12, were killed in an Israeli air attack as they slept

Fire breaks out on ship being repaired in the port of Qingdao, eastern China.

A foreign cargo ship caught fire on Thursday morning while docked for repairs in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao, causing heavy casualties, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The report did not mention the number of killed or injured. President Xi Jinping has given orders to find those missing in the fire. More to follow...

At least five people died and 87 remained unaccounted for Thursday after a ferry caught fire off the Philippine island province of Palawan, with 42 passengers and crew rescued. Coast guard teams continued search and rescue operations as officials warned the figures could change while they worked to establish what happened.

An explosion at an arms depot in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province killed 14 people on Wednesday, the local health department said, without specifying the cause of the blast. “The toll from the explosion in a temporary storage for collecting weapons and war remnants near the city of Sarmada ... registered 14 killed and 11 injured in a preliminary count,” the Idlib health department said. The Syrian defence ministry’s media department earlier told state television that several of the ministry’s...

Israeli strikes ⁠on a ​southern Lebanese town early on Monday killed at least 11 people including two children ​and two medics, Lebanon's state news agency said. Israel has intensified its bombardment of south Lebanon in recent days despite a June ceasefire that was meant ​to halt fighting ‌between the Israeli military and Lebanese armed ⁠group Hezbollah. 

Israeli airstrikes overnight killed 11 people in a south Lebanon village, including two infants, Lebanese state media said Monday, a day after separate raids left seven dead. France 24's Renée Davis in Beirut has the latest.

Ten people were killed after a fireworks display detonated during a religious festival in Mexico, injuring dozens more.

Local government says at least 60 were wounded in the blast, apparently caused by a burning bull effigy.